Support for recent OCaml versions

[mvglasow]

I am trying to build Unison for Android, which requires OCaml >= 4.08.

Any chance of adding support for a somewhat recent OCaml version? What would it take?

[whitequark]

I'd say look at the existing packages and try to do something similar. (This is what I did back when I maintained this actively.)

[mvglasow]

As far as I can tell, the contents of this repo were developed for one OCaml version and have stayed there until this day. Thus, presumably some things can be reused, whereas others need to be updated.

Off the top of your head, would you be able to give a rough overview of what you did back then? How complex would adding support for a different OCaml version be? Just changing a few version numbers in a few places, or making more extensive changes? What is stable across versions? (Or is that a matter of try and error?)

[whitequark]

It was almost 10 years ago!